CCTV Professionals -- Recommendation

[ike5547]

I need a decent RAID 10, SATA, Hardware Controller for a Milestone VMS Management Server. Keyword is: Decent. A compromise between price and quality. Something you wouldn't be ashamed of selling to one of your more price conscious customers while you, yourself, felt reasonably confidant that future issues would be unlikely.

What RAID do you use? What RAID would you use? Any other options?

 

[ike5547]

How about PCIe controllers?

 

[FionaZuppa]

post #2 - PCI/PCIe is just the iface to the mobo. i assume OP meant SATA for SATA drives.

post #1 - how many disks are needed? many mobo's have raid chip on them, so check that too.

way too many controllers to say which one is good for your needs
https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&k...gid=kwd-2942289158&ref=pd_sl_52vu6upgf0_e_p19

 

[Sierrasparky]

What is Raid 10
Are you referring to RAID 1 and windows 10?

I'd get a mother board that has raid built in. ASUS

 

[gadfly56]

What is Raid 10
Are you referring to RAID 1 and windows 10?

I'd get a mother board that has raid built in. ASUS

It's disk mirroring+disk striping (Raid 1 + Raid 0), usually written as Raid 1+0. It requires a minimum of 4 (identical!) drives. It provides redundancy and speed, but at reduced capacity. Raid 5 provides data protection and higher capacity for the same number of drives, but rebuilding a failed drive takes longer, and if you have another failure in the meantime you're toast; assuming no backups.

 

[Sierrasparky]

It's disk mirroring+disk striping (Raid 1 + Raid 0), usually written as Raid 1+0. It requires a minimum of 4 (identical!) drives. It provides redundancy and speed, but at reduced capacity. Raid 5 provides data protection and higher capacity for the same number of drives, but rebuilding a failed drive takes longer, and if you have another failure in the meantime you're toast; assuming no backups.

Thanks,
I had a raid system once with 2 drives. Now I mostly use a laptop.

 

[gadfly56]

Thanks,
I had a raid system once with 2 drives. Now I mostly use a laptop.

That was probably Raid 1, mirroring. Striping alone is an invitation to nuke your data. There is no way to recover data from a striped set. It's primary utility is to create a single volume from multiple drives and because the computer can call data from every drive at the same time, it can be very fast.